Robin Lough is an award-winning director who has worked in all areas of television arts and entertainment.
In a career that has embraced documentaries, concerts, opera, musicals and plays, his recent credits include:
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and The Mysteries for BBC4. The Lesley Garrett Show for BBC2, Omnibus: Andre Previn for BBC1, Is That Your Final Answer? (the making of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?) for ITV, Midsummer Classics for Digital Classics, Operatunity: Rigoletto and Yo-Yo Ma and the Kalahari Bushmen for Channel Four, nine episodes of Man and Music for Granada Television, and Alone Together (Michael Ball at the Donmar Warehouse) for Heritage Theatre.
He has made over one hundred documentary films on subjects as varied as Joan Miro, Buddy Holly, the Dalai Lama, the photographer Lee Miller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chris Eubank, David Puttnam and Rod Stewart. He also directed episodes on Surrealism and Modern Architecture for the seminal modern art series, The Shock of the New.
His opera credits include Death in Venice, Simon Boccanegra, La Cenerentola and Giulio Cesare from Glyndebourne, Madam Butterfly from Welsh National Opera and Don Giovanni and La Boheme from the Teatro Real, Madrid.
His concert credits include Midsummer Classics to mark the inauguration of Digital Classics Television, Choir of the Year, Cardiff Singer of the World, Proms in the Park and the first International Festival of Musical Theatre for BBC2, and The Mysteries, The Rivals and She Stoops to Conquer for Heritage Theatre
His jazz credits include The Newcastle, Camden and Brecon Jazz Festivals. Film profiles include George Shearing, Jacques Loussier and, most recently, Cy Coleman.
Awards and nominations: Plague and the Moonflower (PACT/Indie, Best Arts Programme) Auntie: The Inside Story of the BBC (PACT/Indie, Best Archive Documentary) Make The Little Beggars Hop (BAFTA, Best Arts) The Making of The Mission (BAFTA, Best Arts) Omnibus; Andre Previn (BAFTA, Montreal Television Festival) Sidetracks: Kiri te Kanawa & Andre Previn (Cable/ACE) Giulio Cesare (Gramophone Awards 2006 (Best DVD); BBC Music Magazine Awards 2007 ( DVD of the Year).